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  • WTFH
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    Morning all
    CBS, etc, although there were signs of frost in one of the fields where the grass was sheltered by a hedge.
    Very pleasant walk, although I was a bit surprised to see an advert for a talk by a guy who calls himself a "retired IT consultant" - he retired 25 years ago - who now goes round the country preaching about how we need to wear tinfoil hats, home educate, burn more coal and when you get sick wave a crystal over your head. All wrapped up in sovereign citizen stuff and "give our association your money".

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  • eek
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    It's been a lovely day today but I only got to be out in it for about half an hour at lunchtime.

    On my way home now. Brain is pooped.
    I was at clientco. We (well me and the BA) decided to go to the Japanese for lunch but there was an outdoor table available at the Ivy Cafe so we went there instead

    think we got back to work in just under 2 hours

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    It’s another sunny start with a mostly clear blue sky - just a few wisps and vapour trails here and there. It won’t be quite as warm as yesterday, being 5°C with an anticipated high of 15°. It may start to cloud over in the afternoon, too. The barometers have shot up to 1016/1024mB

    Thursday!

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  • NickFitz
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    All kinds of strange things are happening in The Dark Forest, as so often happens in such tales

    Thursday tomorrow!

    Goodnight all

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  • WTFH
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    I got both right on tonight’s Ambulance. Wasn’t certain of the second one until they started playing The Housemartins.

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  • xoggoth
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    No group walk today as usual leaders have all sorts of problems, but met up for a drink in pub to discuss future arrangements. Local history talk this evening, much more interesting than it sounded.

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  • NickFitz
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    For tea tonight, I made some spicy lambburgers and had one of them in a white bap with ketchup, and chips

    The others have gone in the freezer

    This was accompanied by the rest of Forensics: The Real CSI on iPlayer, in which teenagers were stabbing each other for idiotic reasons

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  • ladymuck
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    It's been a lovely day today but I only got to be out in it for about half an hour at lunchtime.

    On my way home now. Brain is pooped.

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  • NickFitz
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    Another day done. Quite a frustrating one, as there was a thing I wanted to debug but there were a plethora of meetings taking up the whole morning and much of the afternoon

    It’s still sunny out

    The gardener has been and cut the lawns, so the recently-resurgent daisies are gone. But they’ll be back

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  • NickFitz
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    Lunch: leftover pork cutlet in a wholemeal bap with apple sauce

    Still sunny out

    The show & tell went OK. I was hastily deploying stuff first thing in case we were on at the start but we turned out to be near the end, so I had time to tweak a couple of things and redeploy while it was going on

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Morning.

    Wednesday?

    Dry.

    Blue white sky.

    Wanly sunny.

    NotSoChilly in here at 14.5 deg, 13? deg in the kitchen, 11 in the leanto.

    1012.5 mBar, 29.899 in Hg, 759.4 Torr, 14.685 psi, (up from 1009 last night), 65% RH (Lidl electric).

    Meanwhile on the 21st of March 2020 the Polish Cafe opposite NF was open again, LM was washing things & opening & closing windows, plus buying bog roll from Wilko, BR14 and scruff popped in, with BR14 distressed that his daily 3 hours in the pub was no longer possible, whilst I was chatting with her next door over the garden wall.

    It must be said that this painful neck is not exactly getting any better. Ho hum. And there's some inneresting clicks coming from it and the left shoulder. I think I'm time expired, past my useby date. .

    Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the baking heat of the morning. Could have done with a layer less.

    Nice chat with her next door but one, a nice chat with a couple who turned out to be related to the now very late chap who owned the weed house 36 years ago, and a nice chat with the chap I chat with in Penydre.

    Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about small abattoirs. <click> I can think of a couple of such in Neath that are long long gone.

    So that's what yesterday's plod overload was about:

    https://uk.news.yahoo.com/car-plunge...131923596.html

    Plus a fire engine.

    I was about 100 yards away at the time.

    More gardening. Pruned the gooseberries. Hacked the ashtree seedlings. Damn things are everywhere.

    Spoke to her next door & was congratulated on my new grand nephew.

    Tea: tesco battered "fish" (couldn't find the battered haddock so gave this a try: well there's only another 3 of them left ). Nice enough. Ish. Entertainment: PM. <maga nutjob click>

    Scotland Yard. "the white cliffs (1957)". Dunno why watching 70 year old tv programmes is more inneresting than any of the other offering. .

    Hospital through time with Alice Roberts. Hope it's a bit more uplifting than last week's with that poor sod with metastasized testicular cancer.

    The Welsh language thing, tis from over by 'ere this week, rather than over by there like last week & the week before. Oh it was some female rugby commentator from Bryncoch. Who'd have thunk? Her dad played for Neath back when they were worth playing for, and her husband is a coach for the Irish rugby team. Explains exactly why I've never heard of her. Didn't know Bryncoch was such an outpost of Siarading Cymraeg, like. coz Neath certainly isn't. There was one actual Welsh speaker in my year in skool & he was from far up the valley in Glynneath. I've got an O level in Welsh for all the good that's ever done me. . Same goes for the Latin O level. Amo amas amat & all that.

    "Nobody (2021)". I like bits of that film, ultraviolence with some humour. . "You came to my house which you know you don't do". Lots of dead Russians, wot's not to like? Askin' for a friend. .
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  • WTFH
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    Morning all
    CBS, etc, a lovely sunrise earlier, nice to feel it on my back early in the walk.
    Finally got the bill through from the plumber for the boiler service he did in January, which I have now paid.
    I've put my short raincoat and waterproof trousers in the wash as I reckon I can get them out and dried this morning.

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  • NickFitz
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    Morning denizens

    Completely clear blue sky here and no wind to speak of, judging by the lack of shimmy on the tall conifers. It’s 8°C and expected to soar to a relatively sizzling 18° this afternoon, with the barometers up a bit 1007/1015mB

    Lots of meetings for me this morning too. I’ve got to do a few minutes at the Show & Tell, so I suppose I should prepare a bit of telling so they understand what I’m showing

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  • ladymuck
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    Morning all

    Clear sky with occasional wisps. Dry. Currently 7 degrees with a high of 17 expected. Barometer up to 1019 mBar

    Sunrise 06:09; Sunset 18:11 GMT

    On my way to clientCo offices for a long day of meetings.

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  • NickFitz
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    Earlier, I started watching the latest episode of Forensics: The Real CSI

    And later, I read some more of The Dark Forest

    Goodnight all

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